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Dyson DC14 Animal Cyclone Upright Vacuum Cleaner
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October 25th, 2009 - 20:45
After reading all the customer comments, old and new, I have decided NOT to buy a Dyson. We have 2 Shelties. We have hardwood, stone and tile floors with large area rugs. I’m tired of cutting hair off the roller and seeing clouds of dust come out of the vacuum bag, bucket, or whatever. I’m going to shop around more. Anyone have BETTER suggestions?
Rating: 1 / 5
October 25th, 2009 - 22:07
I received the Dyson DC14 for Christmas. I opened the box and read the instructions on assembly and use. I am returning the machine unused. The weight of this machine is 25 LBS + to heavy to use effectivaly. You could easily tell that the extender tube would never return to original size after several uses. If you have any allergys do not use this machine, the instructions have special instructions for allergy sufferers that are useless. If you have hardwood, tile, low pile carpet and high pile carpet this machine will be a pain to use. You manually have to change settings or the suction will rip your low pile carpet. You also have to remembner to clean filters every 6 months, you will also have to clean the section where the dirt goes often since the machine is bagless. I can not coment on secution because I did not use it. I need a light machine that I can just turn on and push on any type of floor and then just change the bag, if that is what you need as well stay away from this machine.
Rating: 1 / 5
October 25th, 2009 - 23:13
I did the research. I read the reviews. I admit I was a bit taken in by the Dyson ads. But I felt it was a very good decision buying the Dyson. I liked the idea of buying a bagless machine and saving hundreds/thousands over 10-20 years not buying bags.
But I didn’t listen to my wife when she said she didn’t want it. I talked her into the purchase because of how “technically” it was the best vacuum out there.
Take my advice… No matter how amazing the suction on the Dyson is and how much better it is than those traditional bag vacuums like Miele and Electrolux, if your wife doesn’t like it, it will not stay in the house.
My wife has dreamed (probably since she was a little girl) of being like her mom, pushing an electrolux or similarly equipped, “25-year investment” machine. (By the way – we have a cleaning service come in every 2 weeks. My wife has better things to do — with our 4 kids — than pushing a vacuum around.) So when I talked her into the Dyson, I should have recognized that her acceptance (which she later denied) was very short-lived.
Her #1 complaint was that the Dyson Animal was very heavy to push around compared with a canister.
#2 – She really wanted a canister, not an upright (and no matter how I tried to convince her that the Dyson was better than most canisters, with all its attachments), she didn’t go for it.
#3) It looks like it belongs in a space-ship, not in the typicaly suburban home. There is NOTHING nostalgic about this machine that she can draw upon to make her accept it.
#4) It is too technical and difficult to use the attachments, etc.
#5) She actually LIKES knowing that she is removing the bag of dirt (in a traditional bag machine) and throwing it away, vs. emptying a bunch of dust and dog hair into the already full garbage can that will likely blow all over.
It came home to me when she reminded me that it wasn’t ME that would be using it, but HER. (Since then we purchased a $3,000 John Deere Garden Tractor to use mowing our lawn. I can’t complain!)
We later purchased a late model (new) Electrolux via eBay for about $750 and she has thanked me no less than 10 times since then about how much she loves her new machine.
So I made the realization that sometimes you can be technically right, but dead wrong. (That seems to happen a lot in my married life!)
I hope this helps some of you poor slobs (aka husbands) out there who put your brain before your wedding vows. Give her what she REALLY wants and don’t buy a Dyson. We returned ours within two weeks of purchase.
Rating: 2 / 5
October 26th, 2009 - 00:55
I bought this item over with me from the UK (new) because for once it is cheaper over there. THe instructions are exactly the same (diagramatic and straight forward) and if you can not follow them then you should not be allowed to operate machinery. Some of the problems that people have mentioned in their reviews here are just because people are not able to follow simple instructions not because they machine is badly designed. The metal lining inside the hose that one person mentions is the wand that comes out when you press the button to help you use the atachments.
It is a very good hoover and in a country that air conditions every room, essential for removing all the particals pollution that get pumped into every room and settle on floors and fabrics. No problem, just get out the dyson. The head cleans big areas in no time and the accessories clean around small areas quickly, efficiently and effortlessly. If you are complaining about not being able to move the dyson around smaller rooms because the head is to big- then why did you buy an upright cleaner. Chances are you live in a flea ridden pit of a house anyway and you can’t be bothered to clean. The Dyson is good but it doesn’t plug itself in and clean the whole house for you. it makes cleaning easier but you still have to get of your obease arse and actually push the hoover around!
Rating: 5 / 5
October 26th, 2009 - 02:45
We bought it today and it’s going back tomorrow. For $550.00 we want a $550.00 vacuum. It has no power and it is build cheap. The wand is pain. It will be hard to replace the belt when we need to and the beater bar rattles (slips) if you look the wrong way. They are correct in their ads though. You never loose suction. Well, you need to have suction first in order to loose it. We buy a miele
Rating: 1 / 5